We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.
I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.
I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes!
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin.
Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.
When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".
Den ängslan som är förbunden med att minnas. Den ängslan som är förbunden med att inte göra det.
When he said to give him the sword, I don’t think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.
It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.
I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.
You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you." - Duncan to Madelyne.
The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch. Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350
